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Quiet Quitting isn’t New, Caregivers Have Always Had To
Herein lies the problem that many of our younger employees see and refuse to play along with. Why should our choices be between making a comfortable wage and living outside of work? Why do we live in a world where we have to “quit” being engaged in our work or decide against fully engaging in our families and communities? Moms have had to make this choice for years. Be a good mom and care for your children by lessening your career opportunities, or be a bad mom and focus on your career.
Why is that the choice?
I see article after article talking about the “loss” of productivity to companies when employees are not fully engaged. Still, no one ever calculates the loss in our communities from people who contribute nothing outside of their job. We don’t put a number on the damage done when fathers are uninvolved in kids’ lives or on the missed mental health benefits of being involved in hobbies, friendships, and community groups.
Linked – Phishing 101 at the School of Hard Knocks
Universities are an obvious target for hackers, for some really obvious reasons. Usually you have a relatively inexperienced IT workforce, a risk-unaware user base, and one thing that may come as a surprise to many outside of these environments, an extremely insecure environment. A few years back I had some interaction with a college IT…
Linked – WordPress Plugin Hacked By Former Employee
I’m not sure about this headline, it appears that, according to the company that makes WordPress Multi Language, the plugin code itself wasn’t hacked, just the customer database. Nevertheless, we see yet again that it wasn’t outside hackers causing problems for the company, it was an inside job. WPML claim that the email came from…
Linked – Five Reasons Why Travel Is Good For Your Mental Health
While traveling a lot for work can be a source of stress, and anxiety, not traveling at all is not the answer, because we also need the break that traveling gives us. Apart from the obvious fact that you don’t have to go to work (and can legit eat pizza for breakfast), traveling gives you…
